Overview

Assessment of Motor Speech Disorders brings together a wide range of researchers to present a current summary of assessment and evaluation techniques for disordered speech, with both a clinical and a research focus. This unique resource reviews research evidence pertaining to best practice in the clinical assessment of established areas such as intelligibility and physiological functioning, as well as introducing recently developed topics such as conversational analysis, participation measures, and telehealth. In addition, new and established research methods from areas such as phonetics, kinematics, imaging, and neural modeling are reviewed in relation to their applicability and value for the study of disordered speech. Based on the broad coverage of topics and methods, the textbook represents a valuable resource for a wide ranging audience, including clinicians, researchers, as well as students with an interest in speech pathology and clinical phonetics.

Highly-acclaimed experts, including Nick Miller, Wolfram Ziegler and Deborah Theodoros, have written the 16 chapters.

What makes this book such a valuable resource is the fact the chapters are written from a perspective that includes the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health framework, which is then applied to the assessment of motor speech disorders. The information is presented in an accessible style and provides the reader with useful information, such as online resources and names/location of relevant tests andassessment tools.

This book is also an excellent resource because it gives an up-to-date comprehensive summary for the assessment and evaluation of motor speech disorders considering well-known areas such as intelligibility, physiological assessment and prosody. It also includes recently established areas such as telerehabilitation and conversation analysis."

Claire Bagness, Speech-Language Therapist, Northumberland, Speech & Language Therapy in Practice, (2011):"This is an up-to-date comprehensive overview of holistic assessment of motor speech disorders. Phonetic and physiological assessment are thoroughly detailed as well as evaluation of the impact of motor speech disorders on an individual through adoption of the ICF framework (International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health). Conversation analysis, tele-health, imaging and neural modelling are also covered. Although some chapters are relevant to developmental motor speech disorders, the focus is primarily on acquired disorders.

Some aspects of assessment are more applicable for research, however much is relevant for clinical assessment of this complex range of disorders. This text is accessible and would be of use to newly qualified and experienced clinicans alike."

Ellika Schalling, PhD, SLP, Karolinska Institutet Karolinska University Hospital, Sweden, International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, (2014):"The chapters are generally written in an easily accessible style and provide a wealth of updated
information and references of interest both for clinicians and researchers in the field. There are
many useful summaries as well as references to valuable sources of further information. Many of the
test-materials and studies discussed in the book are of course based on English-speaking
populations, but a lot of the information is general and useful for professionals also in other parts of
the world. This is a well-written and informative book that provides a comprehensive overview of
assessment in the area of motor speech disorders, including both areas with a more long-standing
tradition and more recent topics such as e.g. telerehabilitation and functional neuroimaging. I
warmly recommend this textbook to all readers with an interest in motor speech disorders."

About The Editors

Anja Lowit, PhD, is a Reader in the Division of Speech and Language Therapy at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, United Kingdom. She teaches clinical linguistics and her research focuses on the application of linguistic theories to the study and clinical management of motor
speech disorders.

Raymond Kent, PhD is Professor of Communicative Disorders at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His current primary research interests include: neurogenic speech disorders in children and adults, speech development in infants and young children, procedures to assess speech intelligibility and quality, acoustic analyses of speech, and theories of speech production.